Catalytic Converter Protection

Bronco V-8

They could do the easy thing and stop putting converters on cars.

Since that's never going to happen, other options are likely more practical.

ashbyale

Catalytic Converter theft is becoming a problem in my area, along with many others. Does anyone know of a Cat Lock or Cat Shield that would be good for a bs? All suggestions welcome :)

Catclamp.com we use these for our cutaway vans at work. Personally I shopped under body bash plates that would also block the cat and went that route. My cat is blocked and my underbody components are protected.

sportcoupe

Have you smelled a car driving without cats? It stinks.

Bad cats smell like rotten eggs. Missing cats is loud but no smell, cat deletes/high flow cats do not stink nor sound like shivering diesels.

If the cat is working correctly there shouldn’t be a smell…. From your article, @Bronco V-8
“The combustion process of gasoline fuel produces a lot of compounds, one of which is So2 or sulfur dioxide. Under proper operation the catalytic converter can oxidize these chemicals to something you can’t smell, however, under some normal circumstances, the catalytic converter will convert the So2 to H2S or smelly hydrogen sulfide. This happens naturally when the catalyst temp is too high, exhaust velocities are too low or the fuel mixture is too rich.
Thus if you smell an eggy smell when slowing down from high speeds with a hot engine it may be completely normal, however, if your car smells all the time or at idle then your catalytic converter is probably failing. Over time, these chemicals and gasoline can clog the catalytic converter, which hampers it from properly converting these chemicals into a less harmful exhaust.“

What about this solution? https://www.catstrap.net/

At least some of them get caught!

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/...ters-over-470-vehicles-and-targeting-atms-and

Sorry folks, I didn’t realize that I didn’t get back to this with a response from my dealer. We both found this skid plate replacement that covers the cat.
https://www.jcroffroad.com/product/BR6SD-TRN.html

FireOne

Not a Cat story but, I knew a guy who after having his car stereo receiver ripped from his car twice,
soldered single edge razor blades to the bottom rear of the receiver so when they felt underneath and grabbed and ripped, well you get the picture.
Third time, he found lots of blood in the inside of his car along with a kicked in door.
He says it was still worth it.

The Cat thefts in the city where I work are a real problem. The most targeted are Toyotas and other Japanese vehicles, because they contain more of the precious metals that they can sell. One election cycle in the early 2000's, we had just bought our house a few years earlier. I put a few candidates signs on my front lawn and one morning I was leaving the driveway and noticed they were gone. I got more and it happened again. So, I got more. I'm persistent, because this is a federal crime. I thought about camouflaging up and hunkering down in the woods to wait for the thief to come back, but I have to work in the morning. My wife sees me in the garage one day and asked what I was doing? I told her that I was going to get that SOB taking the signs off the lawn, by attaching razor blades to them. She told me that I couldn't do that, because they would sue us. I didn't consider that, crazed guy protecting his stuff, so she was right. I changed tactics. I sprayed the hell out of the signs with my pepper spray. The next day, I found one of the signs dropped on the lawn. I could see finger streaks on the sign. The bastard never came back. My next tactic was going to be getting a car battery and run wire like a Claymore and electrify the sign.